The Chessnut EVO is one of our favorite AI chessboards. It has a built-in Android tablet and powerful engines such as Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero, and Maia. It has smart piece recognition, so you can easily set up positions and even play Chess960. It even has a career mode and lets you train your own AI engine. Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 Max is an AI model that can answer your questions, create videos, and even play chess.
I decided to put it to the test against Lc0 on Chessnut EVO. These language models can play openings fairly well but they do tend to lose track of the pieces after a while and make big blunders. We have already seen that with DeepSeek R1 and o3-mini. Qwen 2.5 Max was no different. It started well but after a few moves, it decided to make illegal moves and capture pieces it couldn’t.
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